I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it.
I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste.
Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.
One writes to find words' meanings.
Words at night were feral things.
The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.